[UCANSEE2]

You are likely correct.

But, gathering these bones, and burying them, with government acknowledgment that they belong to their ‘tribe’, means a continuation of government funding.

It means they establish permanently that they ‘owned’ the North American continent, tribe by tribe, and we owe them for it.

Ironic, coming from a culture that professed to not being able to ‘own’ the land.

[CaptRon]

I can't think of a group of people who haven't been conquered by another group of people in the history of the world (although I have read that the Thai people have never been conquered. Don't know how accurate that is).

Why do "native Americans" (among whom I have ancestors) figure they are the exception?